davide256 Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 I want to perform an experiment with my Linn Genki HDCD player. Right now the Reference Recording HDCD's sound far better with it than the ripped to FLAC versions from DBPoweramp with HDCD decoding; as I did some reading, its sounds like features are missing from the DBPoweramp HDCD decoder. I'd like to reverse engineer that with a 96/24 FLAC recording to CD for a comparison. Anyone know of a way I could do this? Regards, Dave Audio system Link to comment
jacobacci Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Sounds like you need a Pacific Microsonics A/D: https://www.gearslutz.com/board/mastering-forum/599758-hdcd-pacific-microsonics-all-thread.html I have never come across any information about other possibilities to encode HDCD Link to comment
Miska Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 HDCD is very much like a predecessor for MQA. Being very proprietary and closed content format it is very difficult to create. Signalyst - Developer of HQPlayer Pulse & Fidelity - Software Defined Amplifiers Link to comment
davide256 Posted April 17, 2020 Author Share Posted April 17, 2020 42 minutes ago, Miska said: HDCD is very much like a predecessor for MQA. Being very proprietary and closed content format it is very difficult to create. HDCD is basically a compression technique that stuffs 20 bits of dynamic range into 16 bits of "physical" data. Probably an off shoot from modem data compression techniques of the 90's. Does sound like few other than Reference Recordings understood how to best encode so that "Set and forget" for recording conversion might not be possible. Regards, Dave Audio system Link to comment
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